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Besides the massive world events that are taking place and creating history,
there are many other events taking place in the month of March in the
Information Management area that you may wish to know about.
First of all, you likely know that today is Pi Day . OK, now
you know I’m a geek :)
Second, IBM’s Centennial. SVP Robert LeBlanc came and spoke to the employees of the Toronto
Lab this morning. He’s on an executive campus tour to tell people about the
innovation that IBM has been part of in the past 100 years and... [More]

Making the World Work Better - The Ideas that Shaped a Century and a Company
One simple way to access the impact of any organization is to answer the
question: how is the world different because it existed?
This is the opening line in the new book about IBM to mark its 100th
anniversary. I’ve just received a copy of the book and have read the foreword
by Sam Palmisano . I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the book
and will post a review of it on my blog when I’m finished. The answer by the
way:
The stories... [More]

About 6 weeks ago, IBM and Jeopardy made history by pitting a computer against human Jeopardy champions to see if IBM had created software that could “understand” the context in natural language. The project is dubbed “DeepQA”. Did you see the shows? There were three Jeopardy episodes and several on the background of creating the computer Watson. You can see the replays on Youtube. The Face of Watson IBM and the Jeopardy Challenge IBM Watson Why Jeopardy Jeopardy! IBM Watson Day 1, Part 1 Jeopardy! IBM Watson Day 2, Part 2 Jeopardy! IBM... [More]

I know several patent holders and Master Inventors who work at IBM: Sam Lightstone , Mike Winer , Cathy McArthur , Joanna Ng , Arthur Ryman , Andrew Trossman , Mark Wilding , Danny Zilio , and Calisto Zuzarte . Did I ever tell you how much I like working at IBM? To be surrounded by so many smart people is incredible. I read an interesting article today on eweek.com about IBM’s patents: IBM Patent: 100 Years of High-Tech Innovations . They listed 10 important patents and I was surprised by some of what they picked, including Ultraviolet... [More]

IBM was founded in 1911 and has achieved amazing transformations through its history. History does not tend to repeat itself especially in terms of technology, but history is very useful to help us to invent the future. IBMers have clearly taken innovation very seriously and you’ll see this in our history as well as the number of patents that IBMers earn each year. Where are we going in the future? Take a look at these films and upcoming book that celebrate our past as a clue to where we will be going in the future. Very exciting times,... [More]